Pith Number

pith:MYFKAPDY

pith:2017:MYFKAPDY4TTX2L5BZMFIXGEWBO

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Observational bias and the clustering of distant eccentric Kuiper belt objects

Michael E. Brown

arxiv:1706.04175 v1 · 2017-06-13 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYFKAPDY4TTX2L5BZMFIXGEWBO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:51.257351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

660aa03c78e4e77d2fa1cb0a8b98960bab525a7499a598ca55b262c9536b326c

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04175 · arxiv_version: 1706.04175v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04175 · pith_short_12: MYFKAPDY4TTX · pith_short_16: MYFKAPDY4TTX2L5B · pith_short_8: MYFKAPDY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MYFKAPDY4TTX2L5BZMFIXGEWBO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 660aa03c78e4e77d2fa1cb0a8b98960bab525a7499a598ca55b262c9536b326c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31a9718a32cf26096df326e15e361044f6d5405cf1b66281ee3197d36d31e7bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-13T17:41:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7620455d689658918126cbc78bb3641f1a60d8f7ae893fc4bbfbd55068d0a2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04175",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}